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Do you embed the schema with every Kafka message? Otherwise you need to use some out of band method to distribute schema updates with avro

EU data protection regulations are in force. There will no doubt be some scrutiny as to what data safe harbour companies have transfered outside the EU and what steps were taken to…

Don't worry, they will.

I had the same question and it leads me to believe the companies saying they had no idea. Someone at Google/MS/Facebook would almost surely notice those extra servers over there, a…

This isn't true. Many people bike on footpaths and surfaces that are completely unsuitable for motorised vehicles. Almost anywhere you can walk you could ride a bike and cross the …

I'm not saying the tesla couldn't be better or that they couldn't learn something from Sony. But part of the author's complain was that he had one reading in the evening and when t…

I thought that, then I installed nexus and let it proxy the remote repositories and really haven't looked back. Takes some time to setup (few hours). But makes life so much easier …

I think it's the sheer size of the surge in demand that's unique. It's 1.5-1.75 million kettles going on at almost exactly the same time. With 25 million homes in the UK that's 6% …

The same thing that happens now. Malicious user can recover/reset their password. I'd assume that if you used the email to login and since the article talks about also using cookie…

A lot of the time it's because the implementations haven't even been agreed between the different browsers. I can't remember any specific examples off the top of my head but I do r…

For raw storage Hadoop beats an RDBMS, sure I'll buy that argument. It's not the same thing though and it doesn't do the same job. Hadoop excels at data processing, trawling vast q…

Are they allowed to do this as a public company? Would their growth be attractive enough for someone to take them up on the offer?

This is likely the reason, and probably not just as a cheap work around, in most day to day situations it's probably the desired effect since both sticks are independent and don't …

GPS can only tell you how fast you're moving over the ground. It can't tell you how fast you're moving through an airmass that might be moving with or against you, this is far more…

Except the client id has to be generated so that you know which client was authorised with it - in the case of something like Facebook or twitter, so you can revoke their access. T…

The problem with OAuth1 was that the complicated crypto dancing around was exactly that, complicated. Making sure you're using HTTPS is hardly a big ask for developers on either th…

OAuth2 isn't just about bearer tokens and while the OAuth2 spec doesn't mandate using TLS the bearer token sub-spec does.

The reason is OAuth1 is painful, the double encoded and signature requirements are strict and so easy to get wrong that everyone has jumped on OAuth2. Unfortunately they've all jum…

That's the big win I think this architecture has, it's already an API and already ready to create platform specific implementations. It also makes a developer program something tha…

I think they're only really harder to develop in so much as it's more like developing two applications. One backend that throws out JSON/XML or whatever and a frontend in HTML/Java…

Look at the label on the fridge in the video. "Shit Burger"

I don't think they'd have the power to drag the users to a new service without them wanting to join - but they could highlight a new one quite prominently within TweetDeck. A new s…